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The process of understanding and coming to terms with changes in one’s socio-cultural environment, by making adjustments to one’s cultural identity. Acculturation is also associated with [[Intercultural or Cross-Cultural Communication|intercultural]] sensitivity, which allows someone to function in a bi-cultural capacity by adopting [[values]] from a second [[culture]], while retaining one’s own cultural identity.
 
The process of understanding and coming to terms with changes in one’s socio-cultural environment, by making adjustments to one’s cultural identity. Acculturation is also associated with [[Intercultural or Cross-Cultural Communication|intercultural]] sensitivity, which allows someone to function in a bi-cultural capacity by adopting [[values]] from a second [[culture]], while retaining one’s own cultural identity.
  
== External links and references: ==  
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== External links and references ==  
  
--[[User:Anjuoh|Anjuoh]] ([[User talk:Anjuoh|talk]]) 12:10, 4 April 2014 (CEST)
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*[http://www.rice.edu/projects/HispanicHealth/Acculturation.html Acculturation and Hispanic Health]
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*[http://anthro.palomar.edu/change/change_3.htm Acculturation article]
  
 
[[Category:The Cultural Diplomacy Dictionary]]
 
[[Category:The Cultural Diplomacy Dictionary]]

Latest revision as of 08:30, 8 April 2014

The process of understanding and coming to terms with changes in one’s socio-cultural environment, by making adjustments to one’s cultural identity. Acculturation is also associated with intercultural sensitivity, which allows someone to function in a bi-cultural capacity by adopting values from a second culture, while retaining one’s own cultural identity.

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